Wednesday, March 4, 2015

ABA Acts on a Number of Resolutions at Midyear Meeting

The American Bar Association (ABA) Midyear Meeting was held in Houston, TX in February.  At the Midyear Meeting, the ABA House of Delegates approved a number of resolutions regarding the following topics:

- The appointment of counsel for unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings

- The disclosure of lethal injection protocols in states using the method in carrying out the death penalty

- The provision of comprehensive debt counseling and debt management education to law students and young lawyers

- Resolutions regarding juvenile criminal offenders

- Resolution regarding standards for obtaining protection orders irrespective of an existing relationship between the parties

- Resolutions urging: the expansion of housing protections for victims of domestic and sexual violence; comprehensive laws regarding dangerous wild animals; the adoption of legal standards recommended in the 2013 Indian Law and Order Commission report; the strengthening of consumer protections regarding deceptive or fraudulent loan foreclosure rescue practices; and the imposition of death-penalty sentences only by unanimous decisions by juries

Full details with links to the individuals resolutions are available here from the ABA.  
 

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